Re: Cookbook relay

En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

>
> Ah, garum.
>
That's it! I knew it couldn't be a difficult name. Did it disappear all along or
does it have relexes in the Romance languages? (I can't think of any in French
though).

> This is also ancestral to ketchup/catsup (Minnan Chinese "ke tsiap");
> the
> Americans removed the rotten fish and added tomato paste.
>
Really? I didn't know ketchup had such a grandiose ancestor :) . Beurk! I hate
ketchup. But I do like a good tomato sauce.

Christophe.

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